VILNIUS, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A DHL cargo plane

crashed into a house as it made its approach to land at

Lithuania's Vilnius airport early on Monday, killing one person

and injuring three others on the aircraft, officials said.

The flight was operated by SWIFT airline on behalf of DHL

and had taken off from Leipzig, Germany before the plane crashed

around 0330 GMT, a spokesperson for the governmental National

Crisis Management Center said.

All of the people in the house survived, he added.

The spokesperson said there was nothing to suggest an

explosion preceded the crash.

"At the moment we don't have any data that there was an

explosion", he said.

An airport spokesperson said the plane was a Boeing ( BA )

737-400.

Police told a press conference 12 people had been evacuated

from the house hit by the plane.

Rescue services said the plane hit the ground and slid at

least 100 metres (110 yards) before crashing into the building.

The head of national crisis management centre said the cause

of the crash was being investigated.

Firefighters were seen at 0530 GMT pouring water onto a

smoking building some 1.3 km (0.8 mile) north of the airport

runway. A large police and ambulance presence was seen nearby

and several nearby major streets were cordoned off.

The flight had departed from Leipzig at 0208 GMT,

Flightradar24 said on the X social media platform.

Germany is investigating several fires caused by incendiary

devices hidden inside parcels at a warehouse in Leipzig earlier

this year, the country's prosecutor general said in October.

British counter-terrorism police said shortly afterwards

that they were

investigating

a warehouse fire in July, caused by a package catching

alight, and liaising with other European law enforcement

agencies to see if there was a connection with similar incidents

elsewhere.